For scientific papers on AGW, record happenings in the Arctic and the Greenland, Himalayan and Antarctic icesheets. Also weatherstorms and higher than average rainfalls and other extreme weather events.

pinkeye wrote:seems we essentially have a difference in opinion as to the definition of Sea Ice.

Sorry Monk I agree with DRAH re that. Sea ice, must be only of the sea.

And yet we are talking about transitions here. Matters that will become irrelevant soon, or are already. In that the process of a major melt is underway and nothing we do now will halt this melt.

You may not agree on the nature of this melt-off of hitherto frozen water, globally, but I think we are all agreed that the climate of the world is changing.

The permafrost should not be overlooked, not to mention the Arctic itself.! . Once that melting really gets going this world will be another place altogether.In combination with the breaking-up of major glaciers in W Antarctica, surely we can acknowledge... that humanity has reached critical mass. And we are very close to chaos.

NOW?

Enjoy the beauty of the world while you can... and lets work together, rather than as some bogus opposing forces.

Nomenclature = naming systems: this is why consensus is actually the larger part of scientific method: if not all of it, essentially!

Permafrost, for instance, is a scary word because we all know what it means in the context of the science called climate change.....

Late summer—and arctic temps edge over the median temperature line! No wonder the ice is disappearing! I think some high pressure system is over a fair bit of the Arctic so clear skies and sunlight can reach the ice and water.

Abbott & Co are going to cause the mother and father of all recessions—be prepared!

HBS Guy wrote:Late summer—and arctic temps edge over the median temperature line! No wonder the ice is disappearing! I think some high pressure system is over a fair bit of the Arctic so clear skies and sunlight can reach the ice and water.

Yeah and we've had highs ruling our climate for weeks. its been 27' here today. Middle of winter, and the temps have been consistently in the mid 20's.

HBS Guy wrote:Late summer—and arctic temps edge over the median temperature line! No wonder the ice is disappearing! I think some high pressure system is over a fair bit of the Arctic so clear skies and sunlight can reach the ice and water.

Geez loise: why dont' we just pretend those temperatures haven't been below the average for the last month